how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[sawnami]

Good morning!
Came across this KA-BAR combat knife at an estate sale yesterday. Ran my Gatco stones over it and now you can shave with it. I had an interest in finding one some day.

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[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Good morning!
Came across this KA-BAR combat knife at an estate sale yesterday. Ran my Gatco stones over it and now you can shave with it. I had an interest in finding one some day.

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Gatco stones??

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.
Back when I used to turn a wrench for a living I remember working, under the hood, on pickup trucks and standing on the ground. Nowadays I've got to have a raised platform to stand on to do anything under the hood of my wife's truck and it's just an F150 truck. Plus, lay across the engine to get to anything back around the firewall.
Muscles are sure sore today.
Hellooooo Tylenol.

 

[Workshop]

I remember changing spark plugs on a 6 cylinder Chevy pickup, standing on the floor, inside the engine bay.

 

[sawnami]

Gatco stones??

It's a sharpening system that has a jig to set a constant sharpening angle.

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[plcnut]

It's a sharpening system that has a jig to set a constant sharpening angle.

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Bass Pro used to sell those.
They might have been Smith brand.
It looks like a pretty good system to me.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

It's a sharpening system that has a jig to set a constant sharpening angle.

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I have a Lansky system very much the same

 

[sawnami]

Bass Pro used to sell those.
They might have been Smith brand.
It looks like a pretty good system to me.

It works well for me. I like the consistent angle so you have a neat, well defined edge.

 

[bagpipingtrucker]

Good morning!
Came across this KA-BAR combat knife at an estate sale yesterday. Ran my Gatco stones over it and now you can shave with it. I had an interest in finding one some day.

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I have several different types of combat knives mostly Gerber and Ka-Bar.
I carried the Gerber MK while in the Corps.

1-2 are of the BMF and it was too bulky to actually use in the field so I traded it a MKII Gerber in the next group.

3,4,5 Gerber MK II was what I used taped to the harness of my 782 gear.

6,7,8 are of a Vietnam era Gerber I got from Saigon Sam's near camp Geiger w/o a sheath. I was informed many yrs later to not have the tip reground because it was deliberately blunted to prevent it from getting stuck in bone (a knife enthusiast told me) also had a nice sheath made for it.

10,11,12 is my Ka-Bar USMC fighting knife later model.

13,14 is the USMC Ontario knife company bayonet.

Homelite collector in training [emoji879]

 

[67L36Driver]

My father’s and then mine had a somewhat slimmer handle.

Dad was USMC reserve. Served in South Pacific and then Korea. REMF

I left it with a member of my rifle platoon when I DEROS. Such a knife was near priceless in the bush. Build a pancho tent using bamboo in shot order. [emoji108]


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[67L36Driver]

My father’s and then mine had a somewhat slimmer handle.

Dad was USMC reserve. Served in South Pacific and then Korea. REMF

I left it with a member of my rifle platoon when I DEROS. Such a knife was near priceless in the bush. Build a pancho tent using bamboo in short order. [emoji108]


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[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Never thought about this before.

 

[Dub11]

I have a Lansky system very much the same

I got one of them sets too.

 

[KS Plainsman]

I got one of them sets too.

Me three.

 

[sawnami]

I have several different types of combat knives mostly Gerber and Ka-Bar.
I carried the Gerber MK while in the Corps.

1-2 are of the BMF and it was too bulky to actually use in the field so I traded it a MKII Gerber in the next group.

3,4,5 Gerber MK II was what I used taped to the harness of my 782 gear.

6,7,8 are of a Vietnam era Gerber I got from Saigon Sam's near camp Geiger w/o a sheath. I was informed many yrs later to not have the tip reground because it was deliberately blunted to prevent it from getting stuck in bone (a knife enthusiast told me) also had a nice sheath made for it.

10,11,12 is my Ka-Bar USMC fighting knife later model.

13,14 is the USMC Ontario knife company bayonet.

Homelite collector in training [emoji879]

That there is an impressive collection! Thanks for sharing!

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[Jetmd]

I like sharp pointy things!

 

[Jetmd]

Speaking of sharp pointy things had anyone heard from Don @sunfish Forge?

 

[JimBear]

@67L36Driver , I will be honking about 5:45 on my way by this morning. I’ll wave with my coffee cup in hand also.

 

[67L36Driver]

@67L36Driver , I will be honking about 5:45 on my way by this morning. I’ll wave with my coffee cup in hand also.

I’ll be back in bed.[emoji848]

Leave for Wyandotte county at sevenish. Going walkabout.

 

[MACHINE]

I have several different types of combat knives mostly Gerber and Ka-Bar.
I carried the Gerber MK while in the Corps.

1-2 are of the BMF and it was too bulky to actually use in the field so I traded it a MKII Gerber in the next group.

3,4,5 Gerber MK II was what I used taped to the harness of my 782 gear.

6,7,8 are of a Vietnam era Gerber I got from Saigon Sam's near camp Geiger w/o a sheath. I was informed many yrs later to not have the tip reground because it was deliberately blunted to prevent it from getting stuck in bone (a knife enthusiast told me) also had a nice sheath made for it.

10,11,12 is my Ka-Bar USMC fighting knife later model.

13,14 is the USMC Ontario knife company bayonet.

Homelite collector in training [emoji879]

Every man needs a Randall

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